Canada's fate in question?

Let's hope we don't have to go to the nuclear option. This is from Cracked.com. I found this at Reason's Hit & Run, and I thought my Canadian friends might want to prepare for the worst.

The Mountain Pine Beetles are Eating All the Trees

The mountain pine beetle has been native to North America for as long as there's been a North America, but we never really had cause to notice them until they started pulling some Captain Planet villain shit and turned all of this:

Into this:

They've swept across parts of Canada, killing half of the lodge pole pine trees, and are marching toward the U.S. as we speak. Various attempts to stop or even slow the scourge were basically met with a hearty "fuck you" by the swarm, who continue to devour forests while laughing maniacally and proclaiming all that stand against them to be "fools!"

Hey are pine trees supposed to be orange?

Their biggest natural enemy is the cold, but thanks to global climate change, warmer winters means they can now survive year-round; exponentially increasing their food intake. Farmers in Alberta report what they call "beetle rain," where they hear what sounds like a heavy storm spattering off their rooftops, only to go outside and see millions upon millions of beetles landing in an apocalyptic swarm.

So... can we just poison all of the trees up there? Or do we have to nuke Canada?